​SCHENECTADY - About a dozen youngsters, many of them Muslim, sat in front of laptops engrossed in their school work while some younger ones played educational games inside a nondescript building in Woodlawn on Friday."We give the child the chance for accelerated learning according to the space and according to the ability," said Walid Hawana, principal of the burgeoning kindergarten through 12th grade Bright Hope Center Academy, explaining the private school's general philosophy.

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